CREDIT INFORMATION

Music by Noel Hogan & Dolores O’ Riordan
Lyrics Dolores O’ Riordan
Backing vocals and additional sounds by Mike Mahoney
Produced and Engineered by Stephen Street
Additional Engineering by Aiden McGovern at Windmill Studios
Mixed at Maison Rouge, Fulham, London
Published by Island Music Ltd 1993

MEANING

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NOTES

“Dreams” is the 1st single of the album and was released in 1992.

A different studio version produced by Jim Lockhart was recorded in 1991 for the Dave Fanning Show. This version remains commercially unreleased.

Fergal: “I Remember when we were writing it, Noel brought in the chords and as soon as it started I said, ‘This is different’. The demo isn’t really that different from what ended up on the album, the album version is a bit more poppy, a bit more uptempo. Around that time we were listening a lot to Peter Gabriel’s Passion album and a lot of world music. That was definitely an influence on that song.” (interview given to Hot Press, in a “Cranberries Special” in November 2002)

Noel: “‘Dreams’ was one of the early ones, as well. It’s probably, I don’t know, maybe about the fourth or fifth song […] but it was one of the early songs. Again it was just a very simple tune that we came up with and it just kind of came together really quick.”

The song was covered by a Chinese singer, Faye Wong, in 1994 and was re-titled “Dream Lover”.

The American band Passion Pit played “Dreams” live and released their version of the song on a reissue of their album “Manners”.

“Dreams” is usually played by the band to end their concerts.

Lyrics on this page were transcribed by our team and aim to be the exact ones (even including all the la la la’s as much as possible) as official lyrics available in different album releases are most of the time incomplete and/or sometimes have mistakes.

Official lyrics (above photo) off the “Everybody Else…” Japanese commercial CD, catalog number PHCR-1771